Horse-detacher.



M. A. JUAREZ.

HORSE DETACHER APPLICATION FILED NOV. 18, 1913.

1 ,1 8 1 34 Patented Apr. 6, 1915.

THE NORRIS PETERS C0,. PHOTC-L|THD.. WASHINGTON, D. C

UNITED STATES PATENT onnion.

MARCUS A. JUAREZ, OF OXNARD, CAL-IFGRNIA.

HORSE-DETACHER.

Application filed November 18, 1913.

T all whom it may concern Be it known that I, MARCUS A. JUAREZ, citizen of the United States, residing at OX- nard, in the county of Ventura and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Horse-Detachers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in devices operative from the drivers seat for releasing horses in event of their running away or becoming otherwise unmanageable, and has for one of its objects to improve the construction and increase the efficiency and utility of devices of this character.

Another object of the invention is to provide a simply constructed device which may be adapted to a single horse or two-horse vehicle without material structural change either in the vehicle or in the attachment. l/Vith these and other objects in view the in vention consists in certain novel features of construction as hereinafter shown and described and then specifically pointed out in the claims, and in the drawings illustrative of the preferred embodiment of the invention.

Figure 1 is a plan view of a portion of a pair of thills and the cross bar and swingletree with a portion of the improved device applied. Fig. 2 is an enlarged sectional detail on the line 22 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a rear elevation of the parts shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 4c is a plan view of the parts shown in Figs. 2 and 3. Fig. 5 is a perspective View of one of the guide plates. Fig. 6 are perspective views of the slidable whiflietree suport. P Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the same reference characters.

A portion of the improved device is arranged to enable the swingletree to be released from the drivers seat, and when employed upon a single-horse vehicle the swin-. gletree releasing mechanism will be applied to the cross bar of the thills, and when employed upon a two-horse vehicle the swingletree releasing mechanism will be employed upon the doubletree, but the releasing mechanism is substantially the same for both two-horse and one-horse vehicles, the slight differences necessary to adapt the device for either not constituting a departure from the principle of the invention.

The thills are represented conventionally Specification of Letters latent.

Patented Apr. 6, 1915.

Serial No. 801,661.

at 1011 and the connecting cross bar, at 12. Located upon the cross bar and spaced slightly from its center is a guide device comprising an upper bearing plate 13 having longitudinal slots 11 opening through the forward and rear edges and with pockets 15 depending from the plate and communicating respectively with. the slots. At one end each pocket is continued forwardly to form sockets 15 at one side of each slot and in advance of the plate 13 and facing inwardly, as shown.

The'body of the member 12 is provided with recesses for receiving the depending pocket portions 15, and the member 12 is slightly thickened centrally, as shown, to compensate for the material cut away to produce the sockets and thus not reduce the strength of the cross bar. Slidably bearing upon the upper face of the member 13 is another plate 16 having depending lugs 17 which engage in the slots 11 and with out wardly directed lateral studs 18 which engage within the pockets 141 and extend into position to engage in the sockets 15 when the plate 16 is moved into its forward position,as hereafter explained. Projecting upwardly from the plate 16 is a holding stud 19 having its forward face curved rearwardly, as represented at 20. The rearward edge of the plate 16 when in operative position projects slightly beyond the member 12 and is provided with a guide aperture 21, the guide aperture :being thus located normally rearwardly of the member 12.

The slots 11 are reduced at the rear of the member 13 whereby overhanging portions 15 are produced, and the member 16 is provided with clips 15 preferably integral therewith, which engage beneath the over hanging portions, and thus prevent upward movement of the member 16 so long as the clips are in engagement with the overhang ing portions, but which will not prevent the release of the member 16 when the clips pass into the wider forward portions of the slots 14.

Connected to the member 12, preferably to its lower face, is a bracket including a base portion 22 and an upwardly directed standard 23, the latter being spaced rearwardly of the member 12 and extending for a considerable distance above the upper line of the same. Pivoted at 24: to the standard 23 at its upper end is a releasing lever 25, the forward end of the lever extending beyond" the line of the stud 1 9' aria provided" with a depending lug 26 which engages the upper end of the stud 19 whe-n the lever-25 is in its closed or depressed position. The, whiffletree is represented conventionally-at 2'1: andextends betweenthe plate 13 and the forward 'end-of the lever '25, and 'is aper- V the'members 28 -and 28 'enabling=theten-v s'ion of the spring to be controlled. VPiv- 'mal conditionshthe swingletree 27 will be; heldlin; oscillatory relation to the crossibars l2, and prevented; from forward-movement tured to receive the studz19iandithedepend ing lugs 26, as shown in Fig. 2. A spring 28 istconnected ;.at vone end to :the lever-:25 andscon'nected to the portion 22 :of 1 the bracket by :a-threadedrod 28 and-Wing nut- 282' and exerts .-.its force'to; retain the lever;

yieldably inuclosed position or in engagegmentv witlr the upper face oi the Jwhifiietree',

ote'd at 29 to the lever 251iis astop rodBO which'extendsithroughz'the guideL-aperture 2lflof-thc plate :16 and likewise through a keeper 30 "attached; to the rear i-face. ofthe member-=12 By this simple zmeansv-itnwill be obvious that whenthe plate 16: is =in its rearward, position with the stop member .30v

horse action while at the sames'time the- 'clips-15 /h0ld the -member I16.and its-at tachinents from: premature :upwardi movement. r

A pull' device,.: such. as a (wire or. cable is: connected at. 32-to thereleasing :lever. :25,"

and leads thence over .a guide pulley 45 'at tached tothebracket to alpoint convenient.

to the driver upon the seat v=of-1the vehicle Byr this arrangement it. will be obvious that;

so;. long; as the. horse- .is movingQuncler nor:

through then-.coaction ofuthe. studel9. ilug :26 andzstop; member 30; e

The; improvedqdevic'e is simplein con: struction, can-@be inexpensively manufactured and applied without material struc-- 'tural change to the'thill-or. tongue of thevehicle.

is :claimedas newis; Y

1.] A; device ofvthe; class describedcomprising a guide member 1 adapted to be at tached to a 'Whifiietree s'upportia bearing Havingthus described the invention, what.

member slida'ble. upon said guide; member and). provided. 'witha stud -with. which the whiffletr'ee is :adapt'edto b e. detachably en gaged, means adapted to hold the whifiitree in engagement with saidstud and thereby lock the bearing member in vwithdrawn position, and means forireleasing saidzholding 7 means to permit the overturning ofthe slidable member and its stud and the release of the-whiffltree.

V 2.; The. combination with a whiflietree and V its"support, of guide members attached to said support and each including asocket, a

bearing member slidable upon said-guide members iandzha-ving studs engaging in said sockets when the bearing member is overi turned and anothervstud for engaging in :the.

whiflietree, meanszfor detachably engaging said bearing member to said support, and means *forreleasing engaging means.

said bearing member a The combinatiomwitha whiflietree and o Y its support5:-ofa bearing member .detachably engaging-said support andiincluding a rearwardly :extending guide loop, meansfor r de tach'ably engaging said whifiletree' to said.

bearing member,'- a releasing devi'ceconnect-l ed to said support,1, a holding member fCOIlr neeted to said releasing device and eXtending through said-guide loop and engaging said; support, and means: for actuating said releasing device to withdrawsaid holding member from saidguide loop.v

k-The combination with :a whi'ffletree and its support, ofa bearing member detachably engaging saidsupportand including a rearwardly extending guide loop, means for de-' tachably engaging said! 'whifiletree to said bearing member, a releasingv device connects,

ed to said support: and-including meansiforr engagingsaid whifllet ree a holding member Y connected to said releasing device andYY-eXs, tending through said guide loop andi said support-,*andmeans for actuating said -releasing device t0 I simultaneously release said bearing membergand'whfifletree;

5. Theucombination with a wvliiflietreeiand,

its support,:::of;guidemembers having sockets,':a (bearings member: detachably aengaging said guide members and'gln cluding a rear-i Wardly extending-guide loopf; and laterally:

directed studs to le'n gagej in .said' sockets when the bearing member is overturned,

me'a n's for: detachably engaging saidi'whiiiletreeto Isaid bearing-membena releasing de vice connected tor-:said; support and includ ing means for engaging:said. whifiletree,=-a.

holding-member aconnected I to said releasing device andyextending through said :guide member 'andazen gagingi said J support ,i and means for actuating saidnreleasingdevicelto' 7 simultaneously =relea'se=sa1d whifiletree anda bearing member.

In testimony whereofI aiii-X my signature in presence iof two Witnesses.

Witnesses T; M; HinL, RQ'LIDU'RR.

Washington, I); G. V

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